Trigg, William
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Website: https://www.billtriggpercussion.com/
William Trigg is well-known as a specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first century music. He has premiered solo works by Babbitt, Bouchard, Dlugoszewski, Kupferman, Shapey, and Volans, and was solo marimbist in the New York City Ballet’s premiere production of Michael Torke’s Echo. Mr. Trigg is a member of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Car Music Project, Ensemble Pi, and the Glass Farm Ensemble. He has performed and recorded with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Manhattan Marimba Quartet, Steve Reich and Musicians, the Philip Glass Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, the New Music Consort, Musicians’ Accord, Parnassus, Abandon, Newband, the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the American Composers Orchestra, and numerous others. Mr. Trigg has premiered more than 100 solo, chamber, and orchestral works.
Mr. Trigg is also active as a conductor, composer, and educator. He conducted the ensemble for Lucy Shelton at Town Hall, New York City, in Ginastera’s Cantata para America Magica, and has conducted frequently for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company. He is currently Director of The College of New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. His compositions have been performed by the Manhattan Marimba Quartet, the New Music Consort, Musicians’ Accord, LifeDance, the Wellspring Dance Project, the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, the Experimental Percussion Orchestra, The College of New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, the Usdan Percussion Ensemble, and the Kingsborough College Percussion Ensemble.
Mr. Trigg studied with Fred D. Hinger and James Preiss at the Manhattan School of Music, as well as Vic Firth at the Berkshire Music Center, and Michael Bookspan and Alan Abel at the New York State School of Orchestra Studies. [1] -->
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